Duck-decoy.



J. R. REID & i. D. BELL.

DUCK DECOY.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 19, I911. RENEWED DEC. 4. 191a Patented J an. 7, 1919.

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JoHn ROBERT REID AND JOHN nnAsn BELL. F VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA,

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Specification of Letters Patent.

DUGK-DEGOY.

Patented Jan. '7, 1919.

Application filed November 19, 1917, Serial No. 202,801. Renewed December t, 1918. Serial No. 265,259.

decoys, with particular reference to those all) employed in duck shooting, and the object of our invention is to provide a device of this nature of-such construction that a number of them can be compactly parceled together and conveniently transported from place to place personally by the user, which device is effective in use, of light Weight, simple in construction, and capable of being manufactured and sold at a low cost.

We attain this object by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings in Which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device.

Fig. 2 is a. cross section taken on the line a.b of Fig. 1.

Similar figures of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

The decoy, indicated by the numeral .1, is formed to shape out of a flat piece of board or other buoyant material, preferably about three-quarters of an inch thick, so as to represent, when viewed from the side, the profile of a duck.

At a suitable point in the body 1 is a hole 2 through which is passed loosely a wire 3, which wire is bent over on each side of the body 1 and clear of the same so that its ends extend downwardly a suitable distance below the body, and to the ends of the wire is secured a weight 4, which weight may consist of a piece of sheet lead wrapped several times around the wire and prevented tit) from detachment therefrom by turning up the extremities of the wire under the lower edge of the weight, as indicated at 5 and 6 in Figs. 1 and 2. Any other suitable form of weight and means of attaching it to the body 1 may, however, be employed. The weight is adapted to maintain the decoy on cated in full in Fig. 1, to carry the weight 4. under the stern of the decoy, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, and in order to hold the loop in this position the width between the wires of the loop adjacent the weight is made slightly less than the thicle ness of the decoy body so that they, the wires, will be sprung apart slightly in the act of swinging the loop to the dotted position shown so as to grip the decoy body sufiieiently to hold the loop and the weight in the inoperative position.

What we claim as our invention is 1. A single duck decoy formed as a profile out of one piece of thin buoyant material ballasted so as to float onedgc without the use of extraneous means.

2. A single duck decoy formed as a profile out of one piece of thin buoyant material and a Weight swingably connected thereto and depending therefrom so as to maintain the decoy on edge when floating whereby the profile itself is ballasted without the use of extraneous means. i

3. A duck decoy formed as a profile out of one piece of thin buoyant, material and a depending weight directly connected to the said profile by means of an inverted U- shaped member so as to maintain the same on edge when floating without the use of extraneous means, said weight bing adapted tobe swung under the stern of the profile when inoperative, with one arm of the U- shaped member on each side of the profile.

4:. A single decoy duck formed as a profile of thin buoyant material having an aperture therethrough abatt its vertical center line and on approximately its horizontal center adapted to be swung under the stern of the line, an inverted U-shaped element passing decoy body when inoperative. through said aperture, and depending from Dated at Vancouver, B. (1, this 25th day 10 the decoy, and a Weight carried by the exof October, 1917.

5 tremities of the element to maintain the decoy on edge when floating whereby the pro- JOHN ROBERT REID.

v file itself is ballas'ted, said element being JOHN DEASE BELL.

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